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    http://www.cs.rhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=906
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    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/305017850460?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=OZ0ZbshrSem&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=dltlllrnrym&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
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    Replica Rocket at Shildon is operational too. I think that's it though, other than 60103. 30120, 850 and 30925 are all stored pending overhaul. Currently under overhaul, in addition to 30777 and 70013 are 63601 (GCR), Taff Vale no. 28 (Gwili), 44027 (Vale of Berkeley), and Hunslet 3183 (Flour Mill). Progress on the latter three appears to glacial.
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    Bristol Beaufighter at Duxford yesterday, in a rather empty hangar with the doors open so a different view to usual. Still awaiting the right type of engines before it flies, otherwise it's basically complete.
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    "I've got a great Leslie Nielsen pun" "Really, what is it?" "It's a type of joke based on word play. But that's not important right now"
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    It was only the wheels themselves that were used under the telescope. Even the axles were disposed of I believe. There's a photo here showing what the "bogies" looked like - definitely not Castle ones! Showing
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    Doors operate on 110V so can be run off the batteries, assuming you've got enough air to operate them. Good way of killing the batteries though!
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    Whoops! Oh, and someone caught it on video too. https://maltadaily.mt/watch-england-teams-plane-takes-wrong-turn-gets-towed-upon-arrival-in-malta/
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    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/385682565761?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=jeQBcQ2xTAG&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=EeEmQiaLTBq&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
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    Until Covid hit, when I used to leave work at 6am after nights you'd see anything up to about 8 or 9 747s passing overhead in the space of a few minutes, all heading towards Heathrow. Nowadays it's a lot quieter, and they all look the same!
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    I know the feeling - five UIC-X coaches in FS grey are heading my way at the moment...!
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    A couple from just north of Bassingbourn Barracks this afternoon. I knew they were passing over Cambridge after Cranwell, but no idea of routing. Luckily someone posted the NOTAM on Fighter Control forum and it said they'd be passing Wimpole at 14.56. I made it just in time!
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    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden's_Lightning_flight https://youtu.be/_Q-5ASHzFsI
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    Not the best shot in the world (the rest are on the camera) but six Merlins taxying up and down the runway at East Kirkby on Monday was rather pleasant! Shame they weren't out on the runway a bit later for the BBMF display with the Lancaster, a Spitfire and a Hurricane.
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    Yes, looking at Flickr WZ507 was up yesterday.
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    WiFi isn't just for passenger use. The TOCs use it for train info - passenger loadings, faults, pax info display screens, energy usage. So it won't be removed, just not available for passenger use. All the equipment, aerials, SIM cards, etc. will still have to be maintained.
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    5553 has been down at Bodmin since March and is staying for most of the year I believe, at least until 5552 returns from overhaul.
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    Black with red wheels, small numberplates on cab side and large oil lamps on front bufferbeam. Loco number was also painted on the rear of the tender.
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    The Nene Valley have had problems with their water treatment recently. 34081 is currently out of action having big chunks of its thermic syphons replaced (that were only replaced at the last overhaul) due to scale build-up and damage. Hudswell Clarke no. 1800 "Thomas" is also having an overhaul after a few tube failures. When the tubes were removed, big lumps of water treatment was stuck to them! Obviously whatever they were using wasn't dissolving properly and forming solid lumps on the tubes.
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    The locos don't - the shed does. At least for the modern locos. They're connected to an electric water heater overnight and warm water is cycled through the boiler. They're also fitted with belt driven pumps so they can be operated by one person. Very clever. Shame Snowdon didn't go down that route and instead went for battery locos (which have now been returned as they were useless!).
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    I don't think there's ever been three tours in a row over Shap. You're probably thinking of 45699 being followed by 70000, in May 2015. Still impressive to see the exhaust of the second loco in the background.
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    A Barclay on bumpy track? Yes please - at least I can get away with my dodgy track laying skills!
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    This might be of interest, and not a bad price either. https://www.locomodels.it/it/locomotori-diesel/d445-1017-xmpr/ https://scalaenne.wordpress.com/2023/05/02/arriva-la-nuova-loco-d-445-in-scala-n/ Space for speakers, stay-alive capacitors fitted as standard. Detailing looks pretty good as well - my only criticism is the windscreens look a bit too recessed on the close-up view, but I'm sure they'll be fine at normal viewing distances.
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    Depending on when in the 80s you want to model it, the tender varied. Until about mid-1982 the tender back still had the cut outs around the corridor connection, from when it was used behind an A4 in the 1948 exchanges. For the next couple of years it ran with 4498's tender, complete with cast LNER on the side. https://flic.kr/p/B6ctpm Then by the time it went to Australia it was fitted with its original tender but with the top corners reinstated. https://flic.kr/p/ejFSWP
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